November's remaining $170 will take care of everything else except $65 billion in more Sure'd Be Nice To Have IF We Had The Money™ programs.

Yes we can and must "sacrifice" those for the sake of our fiscal sanity.

Each side limiting its argument to the former would be infinitely more helpful towards returning us to the latter than ZEmpeRØ Stompy Foot I screaming "Give me (higher) Debt Ceiling, or (I'll) give you Death! Default!" over and over and over again like some allahu-akbarring terrorist trying to fly his hijacked passenger plane full speed into the New York Stock Exchange.